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Introduction
Acts 27:21-38
Read through 26
Pray
Paul on his way to Rome.
The wind has been a constant adversary and they have had to slow down and they were caught out in the waters at the wrong time of year.
A typhoon wind struck the boat and blew it off course quite a ways 475 miles.
They are afraid they are going to die.
It’s a dire situation.
I think of those sailors on the ship in Jonah.
This seems to be bigger storm than that one.
Different time improvements have been made in ships.
But those sailors were praying and ditching things over board and asking the prophet Jonah to save them.
Willing, reluctantly, but willing to pitch a man over board to his death to save the ship.
And here Paul is on this boat and they are in a storm and they don’t have enough time to eat they have been so busy trying to keep the boat afloat.
Well that and the panic of a giant storm blowing you around with the threat of death.
14 days they go without eating.
As the sailors think they are getting close to land they start sounding and thinking of going out in the row boat.
So the centurion and the sailors cut the skip loose making them depend all the more on the Lord’s Deliverance.
And Paul has the courage and the trust in God to stand and say “keep up your courage, for there will be no loses of life among you, but only of the ship.
For this very night an angel of the God to whom I belong and who m I serve stood before me, saying ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; you must stand before Caesar; and behold, God has granted you all those who are sailing with you’.”
Trust
What trust in God is that!
Do I trust in God that much that when everything is going wrong I can say whatever happens God will see me through?
That can be tough.
Easy here in our pews, But …
This Psalm is a prayer of Trust.
And it is from this trust that we have hope.
And I am not talking about a secular idea of hope.
The feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best.
Hope in this secular since almost means like I wish that things would turn out for the best.
No Because we trust we can hope.
I trust that God will turn out things for the best.
I hope that God will turn out things for the best.
More than a feeling it is a knowledge and reliance on God that he will follow through with his promises.
So when I say I put my hope in you.
I put my trust in you.
I put my life in you.
And we can put our trust in God.
When we think about who God is:
The God who is Love
The God who Created out of his Love
The God who has a plan for us
A God who has a plan to prosper us and not to harm us
Plans for hope and a future
A God who sees the big picture and knows your heart’s desire
Who has the hairs numbered on your head and knows them all
A God who came down himself
Lived a perfect life to be the ultimate sacrifice
And was the perfect lamb
So he was beaten and crucified and raised from the dead so that we can have salvation
We can trust God
Do You Put Your Trust in The Heavenly Father?
Next Steps
Do you?
Have you accepted him with your salvation
Do you trust him with your finances?
Trust God with your plans
Trust God with your life
Do you trust that he will meet your needs
Most instances in which we disobey God
It’s because we don’t trust him
I can do it alone
Is there something you need to trust God with today
Pray
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